I just added three podcasts, How To Do Everything, Freakonomics Radio,
and The Moth to this squeezebox menu:
Internet Radio-Staff Picks-Ben's Picks-Podcasts
more on those podcasts here:
http://howtodoeverything.org/moreinfo
http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/
http://themoth.org/about
I've long been a fan of podcasts, and in my advancing years I'm finding
they are taking up an increasingly larger percentage of my listening
time. Tomorrow I'm starting a job that, for the first time in a decade,
requires me to commute. This spurred me to explore more of what was out
there, mainly so I could listen to something entertaining during my
potentially white-knuckled drives to the office. I'll be doing that
listening on this nifty little Sansa Clip+ that I just picked up (more
on that here:
http://ask.metafilter.com/199286/Why-the-1-for-Sansa-Clip).
But of course, I'd like to be able play these on my Squeezebox as
well*. The UI for podcasts on Squeezebox has never been what it should
be, mainly because Logitech decided to [redacted]. In a perfect world,
Squeezebox would have some podcast-specific UI features-- bookmarking,
resuming where you last left off, marking podcasts that have been
already listened to, etc. Worse yet, the only half-successful service
for accessing podcasts, the MediaFly app, seems to be basically dead
(?) now (the UI always sucked anyway).
However, I find that accessing rss feeds of podcasts through the Ben's
Picks-Podcasts list to be at least a passably acceptable UI. Any of
these list items will show you the up-to-date current feed and will
typically sort chronologically, newest at the top (if the feed author
knows what they are doing). Perfect, no. But nice enough to share :)
I invite you all to give any of these new podcasts a shot, I'm finding
them all quite entertaining. I'm going to vet several more in the
coming weeks, and may be adding a few more to the list. If I do, I'll
post to this thread to let the forum community know about it.
Also, got a favorite podcast? Post it here.
cheers,
#!/ben
* I have all these files dowloaded locally and could stream these via
SBS, but what fun is that?
--
bklaas
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